The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-01-13
News Of Belfast and Vicinity.


Green, took another load of cellar Boston,
| and the sch, Ricnza brought Il cargo of merchan-
disc for +. c. Cato Il IA light fall of snow
| last sunday made excellent sleghing :. The sch.
Motto came up from Rockland to the IIarbor last
Thursday night in y, hours with double rcefed
fore and mainsals and single reefed jib 1t is al
| most unnecessary to say that the wind not only
blew but it blew in the right direction. DIR.
| smith left for New York the day before hristmas
The Rev. Mr.. skinner leaves town this week.
| THE winter term of school in Dist. No. l. is
| under the instruction of b. W. Grinule
TIE W ALDO AND SOMERSET RAILROAD. \
correspondent of the kenncbec journal writes
| from Canaan us follows, under date of JAN 3D.
The interest manifested dming the past six
months i'll the proposed Waldo Il somerset railroad
has increased, as indicated tv railroad meetings
| and the efforts of many of Il citizens of Canaan
and Athens, Cornyile, Burnhala and solon, in pro
| noting the progress of the enterprise. The loan
| of the credit of the town OF Canaan in the of
$l6,3Oo to aid the road was followed last Thursday,
by Il vote ot 90 for to Il against, of the town Ut
Athens, loanlnS the credit oI that town III the
| Of Sls,3oo, and it is confidently expected that
| Cornvillc will vote the sum of $1,000, and Scion
$1,000, making Total loan by towns of $;2 200. \
| very little effort will obtain subscription by in
dlviduals of Sis,O00 more making Slo0o0o. A pcti-
| tlon to the Legislature signed by about 40 OF
substantial citizens all along this proposed route
will doubtless induce that body to grant charter
| Tor the construction of Il railway commencing at
| Burnham village and extending through Clinton,
| Canaan, Athens, Soon, Bingham and other towns
to Moose River, and there connect with the Megan-
| tic railroad, called. 1t is proposed to build this
| roa't as far as Cairatunk Falls IN Soon during the
! year lsSO and that, too, without any mortgage of
| the road
| MIR. BOWS SIBERIAN BLoODHoUND. ''Way-
| faler says, in the Industrial Journal:
a good Watchdog is handy thing to have
| about ones premises, but sometimes they dan
| SefouS brutcS, to master and lntrlierS alike.
| such an animal rs this is the siberian bloodhound
on Brga'iier's island, at the entrance to Searsport
| harbor, sometimes called Sears Island, for its
| owner Mr., J. Montgomery sears oi Boston. The
dog Is owned by Mr.. sears and i, in charge of Mir.
L. y. Dow, who has Il lease of the island and lives
there, ana ne Is better than fort and garrison to
| repel invaders. Capt G. H. sinclair told me Il lit
| tie story the other day of how man who did not
| know about the hound came near getting chcWcd
| up while ON piering "trip to the island. one day
about year ago Mr. Dow tracks on the south
ern point of the island, and attaching about fifty
fathoms Of cord to the dog collar put him ON
| The animal soon ran the thief down, and at the
sight of him became fcroclous that it with
great difficulty that Mr.. Dow could hold him back
and prevent him from making Il meal of the adl en-
| turer ON the spot. said Mi. Dow to the terrified
man, 81 VIII give you an hour and Il half to get on
the island, is our boat is left ashore by the tide
after that shall let the hound loose" The fellow
lost no time in getting to the beach, and as the
time allowed him was not sufficient for the tide to
come in he obliged to drag his heavy boat quite
distance through the mud and out into the shoal
water in order to escape the savage buutlhont. Ii
was tough job, but fear of the dog lent him super
human strength, and when Mr.. Dow, at the eNpr-
alton o1 the allotted hour and half, looket out
over the water he saw the would he robbcr heading
| up the bay III his craft. I;rigaliers Island is
good place for tre>rasscr, to Keep away from.
THE YEAR Nr SANDY POINT. our citizens have
reason to look back upon the year just closed with
feelings of pleasure, and to expect even greater
! benefits for our littl, hamlet during lss1. 1t j.
strange that place richly endowed with natur-
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| PENUI-,'pT. Herbert IIucting- has received Il
patent for an hupruy crurnt in the quadrant which
cnablc~ the operator To take attitudes in toggy
Weather. 1t Is applicable to a scNtant octant Is
we'll It. quadrant and can he attcht, to amy of the
above instrument, of ordinary construction. II i
simple and So efficient FOR the purpose for which
approved by NAV !-atol-. Walter J. Dreamer il
his attorney f0r huNng, selling or transferring the
right IN the lnitcd NtatcS-.. Fourteen men are
employed III the Hercules mine, and the sch.
Regulator Is taking Il second Ioat ni the ore Tor
| Portland 1t i reported that the mine L. paying
its running expenses e.. Walter j. trcamcr ha~
| leased the lower hail III the Grange building ami
| htttd 10 for knitting factory. lie l. running
| twelve machines at present. lhe 'l>tuht'ht
about we foNt 'ilG' at North taeuhc increases
| rather than dlmlllI>hTS. II has been moved nearly
ma ter without regard 1" party, : personally
offensive to Il majority VIII" 1t" business at that
| flee. We know " neither the Post otlcr